3: Living With Mental Illness

The Peripheral

Justin Evans

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When we hear the term “mental illness” we dismiss it as rare, someone else’s problem, or a criminal issue. It isn’t: it’s more common and afflicts more of us than you might believe. One out of every five adults or around 43.8 million Americans are diagnosed with some form of mental illness every year. This means anyone who isn't suffering directly from mental illness is most likely living with or knows someone who is. So why is it still being marginalized? This week I share my experience living with my brother who suffered from schizophrenia. My guest Tiffany discusses having bipolar disorder and tackling her personal demons.

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0:00.0	Find the Peripheral Podcast on Twitter at Peripheral Pod or email us at the Peripheral Podcast at gmail.com.
0:09.6	And we're on Facebook.
0:12.4	Hey Justin, this is crows.
0:17.0	I need your help. Moving.
0:22.6	I can't take it here anymore.
0:24.6	I can call along news, but the line's busy.
0:27.6	I don't know what.
0:28.6	I gotta get out here today.
0:30.6	I'm like, I mean, this is insane.
0:33.6	Help me.
0:34.6	My number is close.
0:36.6	8, 7. I can place 8-7. In case you're wondering whose voice that was, it's one of the last recordings of my brother that I have.
1:04.0	It's one of many voice-mails I've received from him while he was in the middle of a meltdown or mental breakdown. My brother was
1:12.3	diagnosed with borderline schizophrenia as a teenager, but I really don't know what borderline really
1:20.1	means. Some of my earliest memories of my brother consist of him thinking the music he was listening
1:26.8	to had secret messages or that his family was
1:30.6	conspiring against him.
1:33.2	This particular call, my brother had been attacked by some of the other tenants of the
1:38.7	apartment complex.
1:40.7	They had kicked in his front door and tried to rob him of his prescription drugs and any money he might have had.
1:47.9	He had literally just moved into this apartment complex and I had to help move him out.
1:55.3	He lost any deposit he had.
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